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Show SEASON TO REJOICE Reasons for Thanksgiving Are So Many as To Forbid Gloom. - THE world may well seem never to have been so troubled, never to have had so much to regret. The Great War has bred cynicism cynic-ism and despair. But Nature is not a pessimist. A year's sun, a year's rains, a year's labor, have not been without their fruits. In farm and factory, fac-tory, in public endeavor and in private pri-vate struggle toward the light, the twilight of the year shows results that forbid the gloomy and inspire courage and good cheer. The instinct of thanksgiving belongs to courage. Gratefulness is the handmaiden of grit. Nature's whisper of well-being rises to a splendid volume of wholehearted whole-hearted song. Whatever may happen in America's own life, or in America's relations with the rest of the world, the reasons for thanksgiving shine with an unquenchable light. No disaster dis-aster threatened or possible can oblit erate the great fact of piled riches in natural and human resources. The fixing of Thanksgiving as a festival at the close of the harvest era is, after all, but an adaptation of symbols. sym-bols. The symbol is worth having, since it always visualizes the eternal charity of Nature herself, and since it is an ever present reminder of the finest resources in human ideals, human hu-man aspiration, human will to win. It is from the gathered harvests, the assembled fruits of labor, the established estab-lished signs of productive power in every activity of men and women that thanksgiving gets its meaning. |